Maine stands to gain from carbon offsetting, but whether it fights climate change is complicated
When companies try to compensate for their emissions, does it do much to slow global warming? Where Maine fits in the debate.
Key takeaways from our months-long investigations into county law enforcement
Off and on for about a year, the Bangor Daily News’ Maine Focus team investigated misconduct and discipline at sheriff’s offices across the state.
How we investigated wrongdoing at sheriff’s offices in Maine
“I haven’t seen your side of the story anywhere”: Behind the scenes of reporting on how county law enforcement officers escape accountability.
A secret settlement hid an officer’s misconduct. Outside Maine, it would have been different.
In exchange for his resignation, Franklin County agreed not to tell future employers or state regulators about the guard’s misconduct.
The sheriff fired him. Then the police chief fired him. Each time he kept his license as a cop.
Cases like this one call into question whether Maine’s police overseer has enough authority to penalize officers for misconduct.
In trove of officer misconduct records, Maine sheriffs hide the worst offenses
The Bangor Daily News asked each county for its discipline records and discovered how incomplete they are, raising questions about what really happened, whether discipline is equitable and whether elected sheriffs are holding their staff accountable.
A searchable database of 5 years of punishments for county officers in Maine
Amid heightened calls for law enforcement transparency and accountability, sheriff’s offices too often provide little to no information about some of their officers’ worst offenses on the job.
The Maine sheriffs that destroy discipline records
For some of Maine’s county patrol and corrections officers, records of misbehavior will follow them until they retire. For others, their misconduct will be erased from their personnel files in a matter of months.
A Maine sheriff resigned after sexting his officers. The full story is even darker.
Holes in the system of oversight for sheriffs allow them to escape accountability in ways few others in positions of power can.
Calls mount for Maine mental health agency to address leader’s ‘demoralizing’ conduct
Current and former employees and local leaders have called on the board of directors to step up, expressing frustration at a lack of action and public communication.
What a Maine woman did after her ballot apparently got lost in the mail
Despite the surge in absentee voting, lost ballots don’t appear to be much of a problem, and there are many options for those who believe their ballot disappeared on the way to them.
16 former staff of Maine mental health agency say leader fostered ‘toxic’ work environment
In response, NAMI Maine’s board of directors said it would hire an outside consultant to evaluate the culture of the organization, according to a Sept. 23 email to staff.
Drug deaths climb in first half of the year
Hardest hit was Penobscot County, which had 17 percent of the overdoses but holds 11 percent of Maine’s population.
Penobscot County ranks 1st for rare fentanyl copycat drugs in nationwide analysis
Rare drugs designed to mimic the opioid fentanyl are showing up more often in urine samples from Penobscot County than any other county in the nation, according to a recent study.
Brewer school board candidate was fired as a jail guard for sexual harassment
Troy Richardson was previously fired from his job as a jail guard for sexual harassment and had been disciplined four other times during his tenure at the Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth.
What this Maine doctor has learned about addiction’s hidden challenges after 40 years in medicine
Dr. Mark Publicker, 70, will retire from his private practice at the end of the year, after 40 years in medicine.
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